100+ Jeanne Moreau Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

Topics: Beach, Ocean, Sea, Cool Beach, Beach And Ocean

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Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

Topics: Retirement, People, Worry

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

Topics: Beautiful, Scary, May

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Topics: Birthday, Numbers, Age

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

Topics: Ideas, Giving, Important

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Mean, Thinking, Mirrors

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

source: - Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Live Your Life, Want, Ends

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Topics: Long, Wave, Easy, Impotence, Condemning Yourself

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

Topics: Football, Player, Football Player

My aim in life is not to judge.

Topics: Judging, Life Is, Aim

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Topics: Art, Segregation, Terror

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

Topics: Couple, Thinking, People

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Topics: Night, People, Moral, Every Night

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

Topics: Sick, Wrecks, Good Health

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Beautiful, Inspirational Life, Garden

I could live without acting.... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.

Topics: Grateful, Acting, Actors

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

Topics: Self, Pressure, Passionate, Complication, Time Of My Life

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

Topics: Writing, Fiction, Talent

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

Topics: Acting, Way, Film

During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.

Topics: Fighting, Inner Demons, Rehearsal

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Important

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Topics: Life After Death, Idiotic, After Death

You should not separate your life from what you do.

Topics: Should

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

Topics: Mean Girls, Worry, Trying, Aging Gracefully

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

Topics: Needs

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

Topics: Hiking, Climbing, Steps, Staircases

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.

Topics: Hypnosis, People, Groups

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

Topics: Aggravation, Deterioration, Vitamins

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.

Topics: Film, Intimidating

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

Topics: People, Want, Nostalgia

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

Topics: Success, Congratulations, Phrases

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

Topics: Wish, Guilt, Feels

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

Topics: Directors, Sometimes

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

Topics: Beautiful, Children, Imbeciles, Very Beautiful

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

Topics: Years, Giving, Faces

Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

Topics: Acting, Spoken Word

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

Topics: Ninety, Young

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

Topics: Giving Up, People, Giving

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

Topics: Want, Territory, Waste

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

Topics: Distance, Fire, Two, Monitoring

In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Dinner, Forget

In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.

Topics: Sports, Games, People, Dissolution

nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?

Topics: Lying

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

Topics: Doors, Curiosity, Obstinacy, Masochism

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.

Topics: Mind, Body, Few Words

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living ...

Topics: Acting, Actors, Way

For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Forgiveness, Brother, Love Is

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Topics: Knowing, Outcomes

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

Topics: Life Is Short, Character, Past, Past Life

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Topics: Giving Up, Pain, Love You, Never Give Up On Love

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

Topics: Climbing, Looks, Steps

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

Topics: Dangerous, Oneself

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

Topics: Birthday, Age, Frightened

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

Topics: Baby, Husband, Watches, Having A Baby

I have no doubt who I am.

Topics: Who I Am, Doubt

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

Topics: Ideas, Geek, Aliens

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Nostalgia

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Topics: Interesting, Mystery, Vulnerable

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

Topics: Men, Tunes, Actresses

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

Topics: People, Opinion, Interfere

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

Topics: Mountain, Life Is, Cliche

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

Topics: Relationships Ending, Madly In Love

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

Topics: Sex, Surface, Humans, Scratching The Surface

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

Topics: Birthday, Mother, Opportunity, Opportunity To Change

I've never worried about age.

Topics: Birthday, Age, Worried

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

Topics: People, Addiction, Addict

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

Topics: Character, Impact

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

Topics: Principles, Lines, Matter, Blank Slates

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

Topics: Character, Artist, Costumes, Make Up Artist, Frenzy

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Topics: Congratulations, Believe, Thinking

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

Topics: Powerful, Scary, Responsible

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

Topics: Accomplishment, Use, Life Is

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be.

Topics: Mean, Want, Slave

It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.

Topics: Risk, Desire, Obsession

You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting.

Topics: Giving, Growth, Acting

It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames.

Topics: Flames, Subconscious, Knows

Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?

Topics: People, Trying, Energy

To give the best of yourself, to be ready to please is OK for a while. But people expect certain things from you, and you have to go beyond that and say, no.

Topics: People, Giving, Certain

As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.

Topics: Long, Oneself, True To Oneself

Liberation didn't solve anything. It just opened up the doors to greed. Some people mix up sex now as if they were eating or drinking like crazy.

Topics: Sex, Crazy, Drinking

How can you say something's important if you don't first withdraw and feel how rich you've become? That way you can become really generous. Otherwise, what do you give?

Topics: Giving, Important, Way

My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago.

Topics: Dream, Years, Years Ago

Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time.

Topics: Block, Worry, Flow

Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age.

Topics: Age, Degrees, Certain

You suffer when you give birth, it doesn't matter, it's nature. They tell you, oh, those hormone pills, they're terrible, you'll get cancer. But when it comes to Viagra for men, they don't speak about cancer.

Topics: Cancer, Men, Giving

Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.

Topics: People, Fever, Ridiculous, Bad Impression, Stage Fright

Topics: Long, Cost, Hierarchy, Back Again

I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.

Topics: Directors, Knows

Sometimes there is a great intimacy between women without any homosexuality. This is something that men are less likely to understand, because for them sensuality means sexual. It doesn't excite us to imagine two men together.

Topics: Mean, Men, Two

As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable.

Topics: Past, Long, Dames

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